Taping device.



No. 629,074. I Patented m ls,1a99.'

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I TAPING DEVICE.

lApplicl-fion filed Apr. 11, 1896.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE;

EDWARD P. nAioH, on LA'GRANGE, ILLINOIS.

FTAPING DEVICE.

srnorrrcerron forming an; or Lettersj Eatent No. 629,074, dated July 18,1899. I

, Application filed April 11, 1896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. HATCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'La Grange, county of Cook, State ofIllinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Taping Devices; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled'in the art to which it pertainsto make and use the-same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which'form a part of this specification. I

In fancy undergarments, particularly for women, it has been customary to provide on the'edges around the neck a lace edging in which are cross-bars regularly spaced and to run through or interlace in this edging a ribbon or tape which, extending alternately over andunder'the bars, forms a puc'kering-string which may or may not be used as such.

The object of my invention'is to provide a mechanism whereby this tape or ribbon may I be readily inserted in the edging without the delay incident to the employment of the ordinary bodkin or needle. The invention consists, primarily, of a bodkin with a flexible or movable head or point to which the tape is attached which when caused to move through the fabric will, because of its movable or flexible point, carry the body of the bodkin, and consequently the, tape, above one portion of the fabric and below the next one, and so on. v

In the drawings,'Figure 1 is a side eleva-v tion of a portion of my bodkin. Fig.- 2-is a View at right angles to Fig. 1. Figs. 3 ands show the relative positions of the bodkin and fabric while the tape is being inserted. Fig. 5is a perspective view of a piece of fabric with the bodkin being inserted.

In carrying out the inven tion", Arepresents a suitable rod or strip of metal of any convenient shape or size, preferably round in cross-section and perhaps an eighth or threesixteenths of an inch in diameter, more or less. One end a, is tapered and provided with an enlarged head a, in which is pivoted the mov 1 able head or point B. To the body A the tape may be attached in any suitable way. The head or point B is, as will be seen, a sort of triangular shape having the point I), the

. rounded corners b, and the recess b the cor- Serial No. 587,214... (in model.)

nersbforming stops to limit the play of the point in either clirection.-

In Figs. 3 and 4, 0 represents the cross-bars of the fabric or edging into which it is desired to insert the tape. p

In Fig. 5 I have shown a section of the fab ric with'the cross-bars O and the bodkin ber in g inserted therein. To accomplish this, the

operator takes the bOdkill in hand, with the tape attached, and, carrying the body ofthe bodkinon a. straight line parallel with the fabric pushes the point below the first bar C of the fabric. Continuing the push, the upper corner I) will be brought to bear on the bar G, and this will tilt the head or point to the position shown in Fig. 3. This tilting of the head or point B carries the point I) to a plane above the plane of the next bar 0, so that as the bodkin is pushed along the head or point B will be above this next bar 0 and the bearing of the corner 17? on this bar will tilt the point I? down for the next bar, and so on. Thus all the operator has to do is to hold the body of the bodkin on a plane parallel with the plane of the fabric and push.

- It will thus be seen that the present method of alternately raising and lowering the body of the bodkin to bring the point above and below the bars of the fabric or the other method of tilting the entire bodkin to accomplish this purpose is obviated.

,It is obvious that it is not essential in the operation of my machine that the fabric be held stationary and the bodkin moved through it, since other arrangements of the parts might be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, the essential feature so-far as the operation is concerned being the movement of the bodkin and fabric relatively to each other.

-WhatIclaimisg 1. In an edging-threading machine, a bodwith respect to the longitudinal axis of said bodkin, said head being provided with Wings or projections, extending to the rear of the point at which the head is held upon the end of the bodkin whereby the point of the head is controlled with respect to the axial line of the bodkin by alternate pressure, first upon one wing and then upon the other.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD P. HATCH.

\Vitnesses:

WALTER I-I. OHAMBERLIN, DE WITT W. CHAMBERLIN. 

